Plex Documentation → Your Media
→ Naming & Organizing Your Movie Files
→ Naming & Organizing Your TV Show Files
Consider reorganizing and renaming your media to match Plex naming guidelines.
You’ve added /media/MOVIE1/Movies and /media/MOVIE2/Movies to a library:
Sep 27, 2022 07:35:41.996 [0xb01b2c50] DEBUG - LibraryUpdateManager will start watching /media/MOVIE2/Movies
Sep 27, 2022 07:35:42.002 [0xb01b2c50] DEBUG - LibraryUpdateManager will start watching /media/MOVIE1/Movies
Sep 27, 2022 07:35:42.003 [0xb01b2c50] DEBUG - LibraryUpdateManager will start watching /media/TV2/TV
Sep 27, 2022 07:35:42.003 [0xb01b2c50] DEBUG - LibraryUpdateManager will start watching /media/TV1/TV
Some of the directories Plex is monitoring:
Sep 27, 2022 07:35:44.630 [0xae503c50] DEBUG - [Notify] Now watching "/media/MOVIE1/Movies/Movies/GENRE-ACTION/Extraordinary Measures/Extraordinary.Measures.DVDRip.XviD-ARROW"
Sep 27, 2022 07:35:44.671 [0xae503c50] DEBUG - [Notify] Now watching "/media/MOVIE1/Movies/Movies/GENRE-ACTION/Agent.Cody.Banks/Agent.Cody.Banks.DVDRiP.XViD-DcN"
Sep 27, 2022 07:35:44.591 [0xae503c50] DEBUG - [Notify] Now watching "/media/MOVIE1/Movies/Movies/GENRE-ACTION/Mission Impossiple/MIssion Impossible 1"
Sep 27, 2022 07:35:44.597 [0xae503c50] DEBUG - [Notify] Now watching "/media/MOVIE1/Movies/Movies/GENRE-ACTION/Mission Impossiple/Mission Impossible 3"
Plex does not support that directory structure. It might have worked in the past, but you should consider updating things to what is in the Plex documentation. You may also need to Plex Dance the media after renaming and reorganizing.
For example:
/media/MOVIE1/Movies <-- folder added to movie library
.../Mission Impossible (1996) {imdb-tt0117060} <-- movie_name (year), ID optional but helps
....../Mission Impossible (1996) {imdb-tt0117060}.ext <-- ext = mkv/mp4/etc
.../Agent Cody Banks (2003) {imdb-tt0313911}
....../Agent Cody Banks (2003) {imdb-tt0313911}.ext
Also, you may need to do some cleanup if /media/MOVIE1/Movies and /media/MOVIE2/Movies are added to the same library.
For example, Agent Cody Banks exists in four locations:
Sep 27, 2022 07:35:44.671 [0xae503c50] DEBUG - [Notify] Now watching "/media/MOVIE1/Movies/Movies/GENRE-ACTION/Agent.Cody.Banks/Agent.Cody.Banks.DVDRiP.XViD-DcN"`
Sep 27, 2022 07:38:43.415 [0xae503c50] DEBUG - [Notify] Now watching "/media/MOVIE1/Movies/Agent.Cody.Banks/Agent.Cody.Banks.DVDRiP.XViD-DcN"
Sep 27, 2022 07:38:45.523 [0xae503c50] DEBUG - [Notify] Now watching "/media/MOVIE2/Movies/Movies/GENRE-ACTION/Agent.Cody.Banks/Agent.Cody.Banks.DVDRiP.XViD-DcN"
Sep 27, 2022 07:38:47.036 [0xae503c50] DEBUG - [Notify] Now watching "/media/MOVIE2/Movies/Agent.Cody.Banks/Agent.Cody.Banks.DVDRiP.XViD-DcN"
